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Heshmat Alavi is a pseudonym for one or more people working for the Iranian opposition group MEK who are engaged in information warfare against Iran. God only knows who's funding them. Here's his social media accounts:
Twitter-alternative - https://social.quodverum.com/@HeshmatAlavi
https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi
Heshat Alavi is a completely different guy than the '''Imam of Peace":
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace
Both guys provide some interesting insight on what's going on in Iran and Iraq, including tonight's missiles. Don't know how much might be disinformation, but they both seem legit and both are against the Iranian government.
A couple of long articles about Heshmat Alavi:
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2019/07/08/Disinformation-and-disunity-The-Heshmat-Alavi-story.html
Disinformation and disunity: The Heshmat Alavi story
Matthew Amlôt, Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya English
Monday, 8 July 2019
The Intercept’s exposé on Heshmat Alavi, whose articles were published on websites including Forbes, The Hill and Al Arabiya English, caused his account to be briefly shut down on Twitter. But how much information war is there at play?
The Iranian opposition is notoriously fractured. There is no love lost between the three main groups – monarchists who support the Pahlavi dynasty, opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), and unaffiliated others. Opposition activists frequently compete for legitimacy and publicity through columns, tweets, and media appearances – a maelstrom of information and disinformation.
This contest took an unexpected turn after the political news site The Intercept recently published an article claiming that Heshmat Alavi, an Iranian opposition contributor to various international publications including Al Arabiya English, was not a “real person” or an actual commentator. The article accused Alavi of being a fake persona run by a group of individuals from MEK, an organization accused of being cult-like. MEK was designated by the US State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization between 1997 until 2012.
[Moar at website]
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https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/heshmat-alavi-fake-iran-mek/
An Iranian Activist Wrote Dozens of Articles for Right-Wing Outlets. But Is He a Real Person?
Murtaza Hussain
June 9 2019, 7:49 a.m.
In 2018, President Donald Trump was seeking to jettison the landmark nuclear deal that his predecessor had signed with Iran in 2015, and he was looking for ways to win over a skeptical press. The White House claimed that the nuclear deal had allowed Iran to increase its military budget, and Washington Post reporters Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly asked for a source. In response, the White House passed along an article published in Forbes by a writer named Heshmat Alavi.
“Iran’s current budget is funded largely through ‘oil, taxes, increasing bonds, [and] eliminating cash handouts or subsidies’ for Iranians, according to an article by a Forbes contributor, Heshmat Alavi, sent to us by a White House official,” Rizzo and Kelly reported. The White House had used Alavi’s article — itself partly drawn from Iranian sources — to justify its decision to terminate the agreement.
“Heshmat Alavi is a persona run by a team of people from the political wing of the MEK. This is not and has never been a real person.”
There’s a problem, though: Heshmat Alavi appears not to exist. Alavi’s persona is a propaganda operation run by the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e-Khalq, which is known by the initials MEK, two sources told The Intercept.
“Heshmat Alavi is a persona run by a team of people from the political wing of the MEK,” said Hassan Heyrani, a high-ranking defector from the MEK who said he had direct knowledge of the operation. “They write whatever they are directed by their commanders and use this name to place articles in the press. This is not and has never been a real person.”
[Moar at website]